Rejinagar Bypoll: AJUP Candidate Alleges Voters Being Prevented From Voting

Golam Nabi Azad alleges intimidation, house raids and booth-level irregularities; claims cannot be independently verifiedAJUP candidate Golam Nabi Azad on Tuesday alleged that voters were being prevented from exercising their franchise in the by-election to West Bengal’s Rejinagar, where his father and party chief Humayun Kabir was arrested following a showdown with police during polling.Azad alleged that party workers, leaders and voters had faced intimidation for nearly two months, and accused the police of conducting house raids, vandalising properties and threatening people in areas with a sizeable minority electorate.